Using data from recent surveys of migrants and local residents in 10 cities in 2005, this paper examines how migration … influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … migrants and local residents. Contrary to previous studies that report that the income poverty rate of migrant households is 1 …

implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made … highly correlated with the level of education, especially for migrants. Although higher labor costs may have had a negative …

Using data from recent surveys of migrants and local residents in 10 cities in 2005, this paper examines how migration … influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … migrants and local residents. Contrary to previous studies that report that the income poverty rate of migrant households is 1 …

implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made … highly correlated with the level of education, especially for migrants. Although higher labor costs may have had a negative …

We provide evidence that promotion incentives influence the effort of public employees by studying China's system of …

the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …

We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the … China, particularly so for the aged. In general education tends to be positively correlated with better health outcomes, as …

Using data from the China Urban Labor Survey conducted in five large Chinese cities at year end 2001, we quantify the …